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Read Sheila Kohler''s posts on the Penguin Blog. A beautifully imagined tale of the Bronte sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune,…

Acclaimed author Sheila Kohler''s sweeping historical novel, Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness , is based on the life of Lucy Dillon, an eighteenth-century French aristocrat. Wrenched from the court of Marie Antoinette by the Reign of Terror, the brave and resilient Lucy escapes with her…

An award-winning author reimagines one of Freud’s most famous and controversial cases Acclaimed for her spare prose and exceptional psychological insights in her novels Becoming Jane Eyre and Love Child , Sheila Kohler’s latest is inspired by Sigmund Freud’s Dora: An Analysis of…

An erotic tale of passion and power and their dangerous consequences In 1978, Dawit, a young, beautiful, and educated Ethiopian refugee, roams the streets of Paris. By chance, he spots the famous French author M., who at sixty is at the height of her fame. Seduced by Dawit''s grace and his moving…

Now a major motion picture starring Eva Green and directed by Jordan Scott A beautiful schoolgirl mysteriously disappears into the South African veld. Forty years later, thirteen members of the missing girl''s swimming team gather at their old boarding school for a reunion, and look back to…

Set in a wealthy Johannesburg suburb in the late 1960s, Crossways is a family drama of love and grief. The heroine, Kate, returns from Paris to the family home ("Crossways") for the funeral of her sister Marion. Marion was killed in a car accident that left her husband, Louis, the driver, in…

In Sheila Kohler''s riveting new novel, Kate returns from Paris to her home in South Africa for the funeral of her sister, Marion, who was killed in a car accident that left her husband Louis (the driver) in intensive care. Amid loving reminiscences about growing up with Marion on their parents''…

An enthralling new novel from the highly acclaimed author of Becoming Jane Eyre The compelling story of a forbidden marriage, a baby lost, and a love triangle gone horribly wrong, Love Child centers on Bill, a South African woman whose life has been defined by the apartheid-era, class-riven…

Sheila Kohler is on tour to promote the paperback reprints of Crossways and The Perfect Place . " A wholly entrancing narrative. . . . Kohler has a fine ear for truth and untruth and the musical possibilities of their interplay." – J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace At a…

In the summer of 1942, more than two thousand Jewish children were interned in a concentration camp in Pithiviers, in the Loiret region of France. From this shameful chapter of history, Sheila Kohler weaves an extraordinary and compelling novel first published in 2001 and now appearing in…